Clinton fury with Sanders grows

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236. The irony is that they're sort of forced to

grab for a well known hero FDR, who actually showed most of the Bernie types the door back then because he had every intention of protecting the "establishment" at all levels of society from anything like "revolution." He was the very definition of an old-money establishment figure with a bone-deep elitist conceit.

Btw, Bettyellen, his record on Jews is also absolutely terrible. Sure, Hitler's use of the Wehrmacht to help out the Holocaust was a real advantage to us militarily, and no doubt helped save many American servicemen's lives, but as is best known he never bombed a single railroad track to slow those trains down. Jewish groups begged and begged for years for any help at all. At one point he told one of their leaders they should be grateful to be allowed to live in the U.S. (American citizens!)

Ardent SBSers, the hero you need may be Henry Wallace, although there were other activists even farther left. He was FDR's VP 1940-44, but (fortunately, unfortunately?) FDR was not sympathetic enough to his stronger version of progressivism, which made FDR's look downright squishy and staid. In 1944, the large conservative wings of the party were strongly opposed to Wallace, and there were other Wallace issues, so FDR did not support him in his run against far more conservative Harry Truman. Truman of course won the VP slot on the ticket, Wallace ran for president as the Progressive Party candidate against FDR and lost, and then FDR died shortly after being sworn in (without meeting even once with Truman to try to prepare him).

I'm a Truman admirer, actually, but that Wallace never served as president at some point may well be an American tragedy. He was quite a guy, and also a civil rights activist long before white politicians would see any advantage to having their pictures taken with black leaders. He did break with progressives to support the Korean War though...

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end. -- Henry Wallace